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Lead from the Future

Leading Blog

Sometimes they do invent something that has the potential to be transformative, but they develop it within a system that is defined and constrained by the facts of the present —like a spaceship in a Jules Verne story with lace curtains hanging over its portholes, and a cockpit fitted out with gas lamps, Persian rugs, and overstuffed armchairs.”.

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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. Has anyone on your executive team attended a conference on strategy, innovation or disruption in the last year?

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Management’s Three Eras: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

Short-term thinking has been charged with no less than a chronic decline in innovation capability by Clayton Christensen who termed it “the Capitalist’s Dilemma.” ) Corporations continue to focus too narrowly on shareholders , with terrible consequences – even at great companies like IBM. For more information, see the conference homepage.

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The Big Misconceptions Holding Holacracy Back

Harvard Business Review

As Clayton Christensen and many others have demonstrated , the management practices prevailing in most companies tend to stifle any dialogue on ideas that arise from the shop floor or the front line. Moreover, instead of conferring authority, the hierarchy establishes an unambiguous sequence of levels of accountability.